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The Quantock Hills, famous for their associations with Coleridge and Wordsworth in the 19th century, have been the canvas on which are sketched the shadowy images of people who lived on the land from prehistoric times to the present. There are Bronze Age cairns and burial mounds, Iron Age hillforts, Roman settlements, medieval manors and post-medieval estates, right through to stark monuments of the Second World War and the Cold War. This book presents and interprets the Quantocks landscape after a dedicated programme of archaeological fieldwork, air photograph transcription and architectural investigation by English Heritage. It describes the results in a readable book including full colour illustrations and line drawings throughout, plus a series of lively reconstruction paintings by the artist Jane Brayne.
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Like other volumes in the series, the text, photographs, diagrams, and artistic reconstructions are designed to inform general readers about the past of a region. The focus here is an area in Somerset, southeast England, made famous by Romantic poets. Riley, who is not further identified, combines archaeological and historical sources to profile th
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- PublisherHistoric England
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1905624298
- ISBN 13 9781905624294
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages172
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